| Description | Registers of baptisms 1870-1979 and marriages 1900-1955; Leaders Meeting minutes 1855-1967; Society Stewards accounts 1783-1959; Poor Stewards accounts 1853-1974; Sunday School records 1812-1972; Trustees deeds 1772-1963, minutes 1849-1977 and accounts 1801-1976; 10th anniversary report 1987, church council meeting minutes and accounts 1974-1989; Women's Fellowship minutes1985-1996 and reports 1977-1987; attendance register c1982-1991; newsletters etc 1950-2015; papers re Christian Stewardship campaign 1963-1964; correspondence, plans, accounts and papers re building of new church on Palmyra Square 1963-1979; correspondence re disposal of Silver Street School premises 1976-1994; band of hope committee minutes (1910-1920); Sunday School record books (1981-1986); orders of service (1884-2014); centenary souvenir handbook (1950); sunday school admission register and record (1917-1960); attendance register (1968-1974); photograph of centenary committee; Cradle rolls (1900-1968), original packaging labelled 'Bewsey Road & Bold Street' |
| Administrative History | A Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was established in Bank Street in 1778. By 1849, it was proving inadequate for the growing congregation and a new chapel was built in Bold Street, which opened in 1850. In 1973-75 the Bold Street site was redeveloped: the old church was demolished and a new one opened in 1975.
The Sunday School was established in Buttermarket Street in 1817. In 1884 work began on a new Sunday School adjacent to the church in Bold Street. The redundant buildings in Buttermarket Street were then used by the Buttermarket Street Wesleyan Mission which developed into the Ellesmere Street Society. (See EMS 256). |